{"id":16066,"date":"2024-02-26T00:47:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T00:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/26\/new-book-claims-melania-engaged-in-power-struggle-with-ivanka-in-wh-irritated\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T00:47:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T00:47:50","slug":"new-book-claims-melania-engaged-in-power-struggle-with-ivanka-in-wh-irritated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/26\/new-book-claims-melania-engaged-in-power-struggle-with-ivanka-in-wh-irritated\/","title":{"rendered":"New book claims Melania engaged in \u2018power struggle\u2019 with Ivanka in WH: \u2018irritated\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new book detailing the evolving role of the first lady in the 21st century argues that former first lady Melania Trump engaged in a \u2018power struggle\u2019 with her stepdaughter Ivanka Trump when Donald Trump was president.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018For her four years in the White House, Melania would wage an internal power struggle with her stepdaughter. Melania called her \u2018the princess\u2019 so frequently that a coterie of East Wing aides had adopted the nickname,\u2019 the book \u2018American Woman\u2019 writes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018American Woman,\u2019 authored by New York Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers, will officially hit store shelves Tuesday and examines how the role of first lady has evolved this century, focusing much of the book on first lady Jill Biden. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reviewed the book before its release, and found it details an alleged struggle for power between former President Trump\u2019s wife and daughter. The book argues that Melania Trump was \u2018going to do her own thing\u2019 upon Trump being sworn in as president, including staying in New York City so their son Barron Trump could finish the school year. Trump lauded the first lady shortly after becoming president, while noting she would be bolstered by his daughter, Ivanka Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I think she\u2019s going to be a fantastic first lady. She\u2019s going to be a tremendous representative of women and of the people,\u2019 the new president said. \u2018And helping her and working with her will be Ivanka, who is a fabulous person and a fabulous, fabulous woman,\u2019 he said in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the start of the Trump administration, \u2018American Woman\u2019 argues, Melania Trump monitored social media and news outlets for personal mentions, while allegedly souring at the plan to elevate Ivanka Trump\u2019s role in the White House.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018She was aware that her husband had suggested that his eldest daughter would be helping to share the responsibilities of being First Lady, and this was not a development that pleased her. At the time, Ivanka was staking out office space in the West Wing but was eyeing the potential of a revamped East Wing that could be geared to serving the entire First Family, not just the First Lady, according to people familiar with her plans,\u2019 the text of the book reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ivanka Trump was hired as an unpaid adviser to her father in March 2017, joining her husband Jared Kushner as official government employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The suggestion irritated Melania, who put a stop to the talk of a family-led wing. A month later, Ivanka announced that she would become an official government employee, working as an unpaid adviser for her father,\u2019 according to the book.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As Melania navigated her new role, she allegedly also renegotiated a prenuptial agreement, including stipulations that her son Barron Trump was guaranteed \u2018equal footing with Donald\u2019s other children,\u2019 according to the book, citing Washington Post journalist Mary Jordan. Jordan\u2019s book on Melania Trump was previously panned by the first lady\u2019s office as belonging in \u2018the fiction genre.\u2019<\/p>\n

In June 2018, Melania Trump came under fire in the media after wearing a jacket with the words \u2018I really don\u2019t care, do U?\u2019 ahead of visiting a youth migrant detention center with her husband. The jacket\u2019s message reportedly had no underlying message, the White House said when photos first circulated of the first lady.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The book, however, claims the jacket wasn\u2019t a message directed at the media, but instead to Ivanka Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The two were locked in a quiet competition for press coverage and, to that end, Melania did not think that it was appropriate for Trump\u2019s children to be enmeshed in White House operations,\u2019 an excerpt reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Overall, the book argues, Melania Trump was \u2018frustrated and angry\u2019 with how she was portrayed by the media, and that nothing she did \u2018would be enough to escape scrutiny,\u2019 including decorating the White House for Christmas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018By 2020, when the pandemic was setting in, Melania had taken to wearing elegant robes at all hours. In the evenings, she would occasionally visit her husband in his bedroom, perching on his bed and listening as he placed calls to and received calls from advisers. She busied herself with assembling photo albums of her aesthetic contributions to the White House,\u2019 the book states.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to the Office of Donald J. Trump regarding the book and its claims, but did not immediately receive a reply.<\/p>\n

Trump, who notched another primary win this weekend when he swept the South Carolina GOP primary, recently said the former first lady would ramp up her campaign trail appearances ahead of the 2024 presidential election.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s funny, she was a very successful model, very, very successful, and yet she was a private person. She\u2019s going to be out a lot. Not because she likes doing it, but she likes the results,\u2019 he said last Tuesday to Fox News\u2019 Laura Ingraham. \u2018She wants to see this country really succeed. She loves the country.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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